<div class="doc-item" id="doc-1926"><h2 class="doc-item-name">sort-by<span class="namespace">(clojure.core)</span></h2><ul class="var-arglists"><li>(<span class="var-name">sort-by</span> keyfn coll)</li><li>(<span class="var-name">sort-by</span> keyfn comp coll)</li></ul><div class="var-docstring"><p>Returns a sorted sequence of the items in coll, where the sort
  order is determined by comparing (keyfn item).  If no comparator is
  supplied, uses compare. comparator must
  implement java.util.Comparator.</p></div><div class="var-source"><pre>; clojure/core.clj:1701
(defn sort-by
  ([keyfn coll]
   (sort-by keyfn compare coll))
  ([keyfn #^java.util.Comparator comp coll]
   (sort (fn [x y] (. comp (compare (keyfn x) (keyfn y)))) coll)))</pre></div><div class="license"><p>Copyright (c) Rich Hickey. All rights reserved.</p><p>The use and distribution terms for this software are covered by the <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php">Eclipse Public License 1.0</a>, which can be found in the file
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